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advancedfilesizeSynopsis: In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassination of the hostile warlords. A beautiful young woman is raised from birth with nine other orphans, to become an assassin. Her name is AZUMI, the ultimate assassin.
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With the release of AZUMI, exaggerated swordplay action in Japan has a new master and his name is Ryuhei Kitamura. To fully appreciate this director's epic and stylized manga adaptation, one must know the genre's history.
The jidai geki (period drama) or chambara film in Japan originated as simple action tales of good versus evil and was first elevated to epic works of art spearheaded by Akira Kurosawa in 1954 with the release of SEVEN SAMURAI. By the '70s, a split took place that saw artful chambara like Kinji Fukasaku's SHOGUNS SAMURAI growing larger in budget and fewer in number, while more violent and modest actioners such as the LONE WOLF AND CUB films flourished. But by the 1990s, both styles of chambara virtually disappeared.
Now in the new millennium, writer/director Ryuhei Kitamura has emerged as the leading force in a new trend towards reviving at least one-half of the chambara genre, the populist actioner.
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IMDb Rating: 7.1/10 (4,732 votes)
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Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Action Director: Yuta Morokaji
Cast:
Ueto Aya .... Azumi
Harada Yoshio .... Gessai
Ibu Masato .... Nagamasa Asano
Okamoto Aya .... Yae
Takenaka Naoto .... Kiyomasa Kato
Joe Odagiri .... Bijomaru Mogami
Matsumoto Minoru .... Saru
Kitamura Katsuki .... Inoue, Kanbe'e
Kahashi Kenji .... Hyuga
Sakaki Hideo .... Nagato
| Title: | Azumi (2003) |
| Source: | DVD Retail / R2, NTSC
Toshiba Entertainment Deluxe Limited Edition |
| Size: | 2.346.463.232 bytes (1/2 DVDR) |
| Runtime: | 02:23:11 |
| Format: | AVI - OpenDML (AVI v2.0) |
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| Video Codec: | XviD (xvid_encraw 1.2) |
| Video Bitrate: | 1729 kbps |
| Resolution: | 704x384 |
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.83 |
| Frame rate: | 23.976 fps |
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| Audio Codec: | AC3 (5.1 channels) |
| Audio Bitrate: | 448 kbps |
| Sampling Rate: | 48 KHz |
| Interleave: | 96 ms (2.3 v.frames), preload=96
Split across interleaves |
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| Language: | Japanese |
| Subtitles (SRT): | English |
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| SA: | B-VOP, No Qpel, No GMC, No P-Bit |
| CQM: | Jawor's ZSM |
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Adaptados los subtítulos en español traducidos por
Kraisser y revisados por
Pismo:
http://www.opensubtitles.org/download/sub/3160021